Literary usage of Strappings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1.British Husbandry: Exhibiting the Farming Practice in Various Parts of the by John French Burke (1834)"Tlie method of draught, it will however be perceived, adds a flexible bow, or a
thong of leather, which encircles the neck, to the strappings of the horn ..."

2.All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1870)"... ladies' trunks, covered like the roof of a house, of a clear new drab, with
metal corners, the pure yellow strappings without a soil ; new portmanteaus, ..."

3.The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton (1911)"So, instead of being the best, I was the worst child in school, for not one had
ever before received two strappings in a forenoon. ..."

4.The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton (1920)"So, instead of being the best, I was the worst child in school, for not one had
ever before received two strappings in a forenoon. ..."

5.The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton (1911)"So, instead of being the best, I was the worst child in school, for not one had
ever before received two strappings in a forenoon. ..."

6.Leicestershire Words, Phrases, and Proverbs by Arthur Benoni Evans (1881)"strappings, sb. the last milk forced from the udder, particularly rich in quality.
The milk before the ' strappings' is called the ' foremilk. ..."